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| synonyms        = Prader–Willi habitus, osteopenia, and camptodactyly
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'''Urban–Rogers–Meyer syndrome''', also known as '''Prader'''–'''Willi habitus, osteopenia, and camptodactyly''' or '''Urban syndrome''',<ref name=omim>{{OMIM|264010}}</ref> is an extremely rare inherited [[congenital disorder]] first described by Urban et al. (1979).<ref>{{cite journal |vauthors=Urban MD, Rogers JG, Meyer WJ |title=Familial syndrome of mental retardation, short stature, contractures of the hands, and genital anomalies |journal=J. Pediatr. |volume=94 |issue=1 |pages=52–55 |date=Jan 1979 |pmid=758422 |doi= 10.1016/S0022-3476(79)80349-2}}</ref><ref name=NCBI>{{cite journal |vauthors=Pagnan NA, Gollop TR |title=Prader-Willi habitus, osteopenia, and camptodactyly (Urban–Rogers–Meyer syndrome): a probable second report |journal=Am. J. Med. Genet. |volume=31 |issue=4 |pages=787–792 |date=Dec 1988 |pmid=3239569 |doi=10.1002/ajmg.1320310410 }}</ref> It is characterized by [[genital]] [[Birth defect|anomalies]], [[mental retardation]], [[obesity]], [[contractures]] of [[finger]]s, and [[osteoporosis]],<ref name=NCBI /> though further complications are known.<ref>{{cite web |url=http://www.orpha.net/consor/cgi-bin/OC_Exp.php?Lng=EN&Expert=3409 |title=Urban Rogers Meyer syndrome |work=Orphanet |access-date=Aug 29, 2010}}</ref><ref>{{cite web |url=https://www.nlm.nih.gov/archive//20061212/mesh/jablonski/cgi/jablonski/syndrome_cgi80c6.html |title=Urban-Rogers-Meyer syndrome |work=Jablonski's Syndromes Database (closed) |publisher=NLM |access-date=Aug 29, 2010}}</ref>
==References==
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==Further reading==
* {{RareDiseases|5426|Prader'''–'''Willi habitus, osteopenia, and camptodactyly; Urban–Rogers–Meyer syndrome}}
* Jablonski's Syndromes Database: Bibliography
* {{cite journal |vauthors=Camera G, Marugo M, Cohen MM |title=Another postnatal-onset obesity syndrome |journal=Am. J. Med. Genet. |volume=47 |issue=6 |pages=820–822 |date=Nov 1993 |pmid=8279478 |doi=10.1002/ajmg.1320470605}}
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{{Phakomatoses and other congenital malformations not elsewhere classified}}
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